The vast overwhelming majority of people needed to farm land, in order to stay alive.

当时古希腊拥有众多的人口,人们需要农田才能生存

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Kind of in the middle of farm land.

有点像在农田中间上学。

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You move out to someplace that nobody bothered to farm before, because it wasn't profitable enough, because you need more land.

你搬到一块以前没人耕作过的土地上,因为它并不是那么有利可图,但是你需要更多的土地

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One of the funny things is that the emergence of this family farm gives rise to the polis' character as a land in which there is a citizenry, which is to say free men who rule themselves.

有趣的是,家庭农场的繁荣,促成了城邦的兴起,公民制开始在这片土地上萌芽,即自由人享有自由的权利

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